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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuV7r6-IN5Y I very much enjoyed collaborating and performing The Single Market with Lucy English for the Enemies Project SW Poetry Tour in Bath, run by SJ Fowler & Camilla Nelson. The Enemies Project continues to be a powerful catalyst in generating new collaborative work, performances, partnerships and audiences, pushing the boundaries of experimental & collaborative … Continue reading Enemies Project

Join us for the final Speech Therapy before the Summer break – featuring headline guest Paul Hawkins reading from his Influx Press release ‘Place Waste Dissent’ – this is an event not to be missed!

The evening starts at 8pm – arrive 7.30 to sign up for the open mic – hosted by Miggy Angel.

Really hope that the Speech Therapy crew mobilise for this one – come out and send off the Summer, and support Paul Hawkins who is travelling up from Bristol to read for us – let’s show this wonderful poet some Speech Therapy love!

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Influx Press, publishers of my recent book Place Waste Dissent, have issued a statement: thoughts on independent publishing in the Brexit era that I fully support and invite you to read in full. Influx Press is an independent publisher founded by Gary Budden and Kit Caless. They publish stories from the margins of culture, specific geographical … Continue reading Influx Press statement: independent publishing in the Brexit era

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Arts agitator, writer, film-maker & old mate Joe Ambrose on Place Waste Dissent; ‘I first met Paul Hawkins a fair long time ago and one night over dinner in my Islington flat he told me all about his squatting adventures and life on the road in Spain. Back then he had it in mind to … Continue reading Joe Ambrose on Place Waste Dissent

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I'm proud to say the book has had some great reviews. This was a great first review by Jackie Law; ‘It is performance art on the page, an installation with time as the third dimension rather than space.’ Read it in full here Thivija Sabanathan at Book Smoke. George Jackson in Ambit Magazine. Peter Boughton … Continue reading Reviews round-up

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Art/text from Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press 2015); Guerilla Firm (Hawkins/Clements) Be-bop-a-lu-la Mrs. Pearson compliments of the day to you GCHQ and all that Russian jazz he picks a path between paper interruptions office-delegates punch chunks of shakespeare punch chunks of Shakespeare upon the backs of the women as polygons set red with light and … Continue reading Guerilla Firm

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Thanks to Penny Elliott for including some collage/text from Place Waste Dissent in Issue 2 of Dead King Magazine. ‘We prioritise and showcase the work of writers who have experienced or continue to experience precariousness. Dead King is a home for a wide range of work, we accept poetry, prose, flash fiction, artwork, and non-fiction … Continue reading Place Waste Dissent in Dead King Magazine Issue 2

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There are three text/collage pages from Place Waste Dissent up on M58 @m58poetry today, you can view them here. Copies of Place Waste Dissent are available from Influx Press. Further Reading ‘Pretty Messy, Fairly Trashed’ – Paul Hawkins Interviewed by Tony White – The Quietus ‘Poet Paul Hawkins raises the ghosts of East London’s “No M11” squat … Continue reading Place Waste Dissent text/collage online at M58

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Nice review of mine & bruno's Servant Drone book in the latest issue of the legendary YELLOWFIELD magazine. Big thanks to Mathew and Eric. If you like what you read here, you can get hold of a signed copy from me by emailing hesterglock at gmail dot com.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThVUK9Y96Ck Here is the whole video of me & bruno reading our collaborative text Servant Drone at Gato Vadio, Porto, Portugal on 19th March 2016. Gato Vadio is renown in Portugal as being an important cultural landmark for its promotion and support of experimental and radical arts, including cinema, poetry, writing and art. Xerox/experimental poet/artist … Continue reading Servant Drone live in Porto

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Thanks to Penny Elliott for including some collage/text from Place Waste Dissent in Issue 2 of Dead King Magazine. 'We prioritise and showcase the work of writers who have experienced or continue to experience precariousness. Dead King is a home for a wide range of work, we accept poetry, prose, flash fiction, artwork, and non-fiction … Continue reading Dead Ink Magazine Issue 2

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There are three text/collage pages from Place Waste Dissent up on M58 @m58poetry today, you can view them here. Copies of Place Waste Dissent are available from Influx Press. Further Reading 'Pretty Messy, Fairly Trashed' – Paul Hawkins Interviewed by Tony White – The Quietus 'Poet Paul Hawkins raises the ghosts of East London’s "No M11" squat … Continue reading Place Waste Dissent online at M58

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Art/text from Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press 2015); Guerilla Firm (Hawkins/Clements) Be-bop-a-lu-la Mrs. Pearson compliments of the day to you GCHQ and all that Russian jazz he picks a path between paper interruptions office-delegates punch chunks of shakespeare punch chunks of Shakespeare upon the backs of the women as polygons set red with light and … Continue reading Guerilla Firm

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bruno neiva and I had a fantastic launch and improvised collaborative reading for Servant Drone night at Gato Vadio on Saturday 19th March. The event was filmed and will be available in the near future. We read the whole of the experimental text book with a break in the middle and took questions afterwards. The … Continue reading PORTO: Servant Drone launch at Gato Vadio

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The thirtieth title from Piece of Paper Press is CARNEVIL by Los Angeles-based artist Steven Hull, which has been produced in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies.

In 2014 Hull made the Circus of Death for actor Jack Black’s Festival Supreme at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The dark and humorous circus—described by the LA Times as an ‘an art installation like no other [an] artist-designed theme park’—included a spooky train ride that carried passengers through artist-made fantastical worlds such as The Iceberg of Torment, Monster Windmill and Marionette Castle. The circus also featured a handmade monster merry-go-round, creepy puppet shows, large-scale video projections, sculptures and freak-show characters. The selected drawings in CARNEVIL were made in preparation for Circus of Death, and have been re-imagined for this book.

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I saw someone share Canadian poet Chris Gilpin’s blog from last year arguing that we need to avoid “adopting the term ‘slam poet’”. Slam poetry, he says, is not a ‘genre’. It’s a way of running an open mic and it’s an international movement, emerging historically with the aim of freeing poetry from the “elite cultural gatekeepers”. It is excellent critique and I hope it is read far and wide by young poets who engage in live performance. Gilpin complains:

“Aspiring slam participants (and apparently even those who have no interest in participating) … copy the most obvious elements of performance cliché—yelling, speed, tones of distress, waving their arms—believing that they are correctly recreating a cool, new poetic style. In this way, the idea of slam poetry has crushed a great deal of artistic self-expression, encouraging poets to conform to something they can’t even define.”

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You can listen again to Sarer Scotthorne and I talking poetry, climate change, feminism, martial arts, dissent and Place Waste Dissent amongst other things on The News Agents show with Alice Walker from Saturday 27th Feb . . .